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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1904
Page
7
Seasonal wraps offered at a third or more discount with two featured lots. New covert cloth jackets in tan shades with satin lining and self-straps. tan covert coats of English covert cloth lined in satin. coats described as tailor-made with plain, stylish effects. Prices shown as $25 from $38. Third floor, Gst.
Fisk Clark and Flagg promote reduced prices on wool flannel waist garments in a bold ad. The copy touts style variety and values, noting multiple cuts and attractive styles to attract shoppers seeking affordable wear.
Rack of heavy coats for girls aged 6 to 14 with prices from 10.00, reductions from 15.00 to 21.00. Includes long cheviot coats, eiderdown gowns, wrappers, crepe liburdine gowns, and crepe tweed options. Emblems, braids, and fancy trimmings noted, with selections in blue, brown, and mixed chestnets. Corner of Tenth and G Streets.
A local shop advertises a varied Christmas fur collection including Boas Scarfs Cravats Ties Pelerines Storm Collars and a wide Misses and Children sets line. Featured furs include Minks Squirrel Persian Lamb and Fox with prices ranging from 1.90 to 125 for imitation Ermine and up to 78 for a Red Fox Boa set.
A vintage advertisement extols a long running Christmas shop offering an extensive, high quality stock. It promises careful service, customer convenience with Shopping Card use, and a broad selection of shawls, dress patterns, imported fabrics, and holiday novelties. It highlights aggressive assortment, European and Asian sourcing, and new location details.
A broad assortment of imported and domestic baskets offers low prices direct from makers. Also on offer are a wide range of underwear and accessories including tights, hot weather wear, ribbed corsets, waist patterns, and linen waist patterns with hand embroidery and German lace inserts, all priced for Christmas gift giving on the first floor.
ATCHESE showcases a broad holiday furniture display promising durable pieces suitable as year round gifts. The inventory includes parlor suites, desks, bookcases, chests, chairs, tables, cabinets, mirrors, and clocks with varied price ranges from a few dollars to multiple hundreds.
A detailed catalog offers comfortable beds, springs, mattresses, and varied bedding. It lists enameled and brass bed frames, box springs, comforters, quilts, and robes. Also featuring gowns, shawls, rugs, cardigans, and games, with prices and floor location on second floor near millinery.
A festive feature highlights UR collection of house shoes slippers and carriage boots for all ages. Men showcase tan alligator rippers imitation lizard skin sippers black and tan Romeos opera slippers and beaded designs. women and children receive felt satin fur options plus bath and bedroom slippers with carpet soles. Prices range from 50 cents to several dollars with multiple styles and sizes on the third floor at tenth street.
Special sale feature on Black Silk waists made of black taffeta with tucked fronts and backs. Priced at 3.75 each, marked down from 4.15, located on the third floor G at.
A third floor eleventh street list highlights baby wardrobe gifts for Christmas. Featured items include kimonas, crocheted booties, hand knit sweaters and caps, white pique shoes, Angora mittens, celluloid rattles and boxes, painted banks, and teething rings priced from 25 cents to 8.25 dollars.
Linen Department offers tray cloths oblong and round bureau covers scalloped and hemstitch. Damask and Huck towels in many varieties scalloped towels for gifts, prices 7.50 to 10.50 per dozen. Turkish bath mats towels and wash cloths. Rub Dry towels 50c and 1.00 each.
Screen Department offers three and four fold screens ideal for a slek room. Mission Screens from $500 up. Tapestry from $4.50 up. Fire Screens Japanese Screens heavy embossed paper screens over six feet high and wide panels from $15. Beautiful Japanese Screen Lavender Wisteria embroidered on black ground price $35.
Catalog of infant and juvenile garments with instruction on use and care, featuring gowns and wraps for invalid and convalescent children. Includes descriptions of gowns, hiders, and related accessories aimed at comfort and modesty during recovery.
A catalog of children's and family toys lists painting books, paint boxes, bubble blowers, magnetized floating toys, printable paper houses, paper dolls, glued pictures, puzzles, enamelware tea sets at 2.00, a silver child’s set, scrapbooks, dissected maps, knitting worsted, building blocks, magnetic jackstraws, slates and pencils, perforated cardboard for crafting, and a new silver napkin ring.
Listing includes Himonas and Negligees, wadded Japanese silk gowns and kimonas, matinees, and woolen gowns with prices from 75 cents to $10. Arnold lines feature lounging robes, night robes, knit towels and bed sacks in multiple colors. Petticoats, garters, and decorative sachets priced from $1.25 to $8.35. washable items noted.
Shop this season features kid slippers soft kid busking low heels for older ladies with tender feet. Selection includes pompona trim shoes in black and colors priced at 31.00 to 125 per pair, welt trim styles, plus plain fell slippers and crash bath slippers in all colors Red Brown Black Gray.
A furniture department advertisement lists Morris chairs bureaus and washstands in white enamel maple oak and mahogany with matching tables small rockers and writing desks starting at $5.00. Tavalds Adjustable Table oak top and iron leg priced 3.76 and folding card tables with felt tops also offered. Oak magazine stand $7.00. leather couches and rocking chairs with springs priced from $25 to $75. Includes Turkish upholstered chair small clothes trees box couches medicine cabinets prairie grass rockers wicker rockers and small refrigerators suitable for nursery or slop room at $2.60.
An old newspaper item markets Opera Glasses for watching street scenes and birds from windows. It promotes light strong fans made of paper and wood, chamois jewelry pockets, leather medicine cases in various sizes, whisky flasks, and wicker-covered bottles starting at 25 cents.
Avain Hoor on 11th street offers pair silver candlesticks small silver thoshes sugar and creamer silver bells small coffee pot napkin rings silver tea ball a silver pusher for invalids in reclining position silver orange spoons tea spoons brat knives small silver and glass bath ellars of varying prices from 75e up
Main floor jewelry offerings include Silver Key Ring, Silver-handled Nail Brush, Tooth Brush, Whisk Broom, Hair Brush, Glass Powder Box, Silver Nall Polisher, Manicure Schooler, Silver Band Glass and Silver Balvedar, Silver Ribbon Leader, Dental Floss in Silver Case, Fancy Collar Pins, Fancy Side Combs, Silver and Glass Toilet Sets, Pompadour wax, Hand Mirror, priced around $1.00, plus a heart shaped Silver Letter Clip at $5.00.
A fragmented catalog blurb lists numerous china and glass items for an invalids tray. It mentions small measuring glasses, wine and sherry glasses, salt shakers, sugar and creamer sets, pressed glassware, folding enamel trays, pink and white china, German imports, and various tableware including bowls, plates, pitchers, and candle stands. Prices appear as odd tokens like 100 and 380, with garbled product names and nonsensical phrases.
Stationery Department on main floor offers leather calendars fine note and address books leather folders desk pads and letter holders leather desk baskets just a line's notebooks fancy pencils fountain pens from $1.00 plus new bridge whist cabinets stamp boxes letter scales solitaire cards paper knives leather desk trays cribbage sets and pretty boxes of letter paper.
Fancy Work Department on main floor features crocheted bedroom slippers in all colors at 2.26 dollars. Handkerchief boxes in silk and crepe, handkerchief baskets, dainty pincushions in satin and velvet, work baskets and boxes. Crocheted bed socks, knitted shawls, wristlets to order, and cretonne and tapestry boxes also offered.
Nickel clocks from Tic to French gilt and glass clocks priced from five dollars. Small clocks in leather cases and a gas clock with a distinct face. Picture frames in all sizes and styles including leather silver French bronze and gilt.
The notice promotes main floor G Street items including large glass window thermometers and leather casings. Large picture calendars are described as appealing for the sick room.
A listing from the Picture Department on the fourth floor at 10th Street promotes framed pictures as suitable gifts for a sick friend. It highlights sepia photographs in frames, framed Madonnas, religious pictures, Christy’s cartoons, colored sketches of children by Jessie W. Smith, favorite poets or authors, long frames, and quaint Dutch pictures, with price notes such as one dollar for cartoons.
A catalog of lighting goods including three bedroom candlesticks in black iron and burnished copper, a brass holder for safety matches at 1.00, small brass jardinières, nickel candle lamp with reflector, three reading lamps including kerosene, gas, and electric styles, and a 1.25 price for ing lamp. Electric candlelight on iron standard 3.00, Presto pocket lamp electric, tin gas shields, paper shades, and a small glow night lamp.
The item stock includes Rubber Air Pillows and Cushions Sak-covered Air Pillow and light Hot-water Bags. White pink and blue Celluloid Powder and Sow oxes and Papier Poudre Books. Powder Bags and Puffs. Cologne Bottles Violet Water Perfume Bottles in Boxes Crown Lavender Salts for the sick room. Sponges Sponge Bags Paper Sachets Orang Root Bottles in four sizes. Battlen Almond Cream Three-piece Tallat Bet White Cellucid. Wooden Hair Brushes Powder Boxes in gilt and glass. new items.
Main floor department item list notes unstrung embroidered handkerchiefs with tape trim and mourning initials. American marketed pieces described for selection.
Displayed items include magazines subscription offers Bible and prayer books and religious booklets. Mounted quotations from Tennyson Browning and Van Dyke accompany bright new entertaining books to attract readers.
Housefurnishing Dept on the sth floor offers scrap baskets in wicker, Japanese, prairie grass, birch bark, and sweet grass, stand and small work baskets, plus a range of trays. Includes nickel, Japanese lacquer oblong and round trays, aluminum oval trays, japanned tin trays, white enamel ware bowls and pitchers, and enamel toilet sets. Also listed are alcohol lamps, tiny enamel funnels, enamel bowls for cracked ice, electric heating cup with cord, and various heaters and gas appliances.
A vintage ad promotes open stock and complete dinner sets for men women and boys. It lists American English German and French options up to Havland and prices to $150.04 with sets designed to teach neatness and space saving. It highlights trouser stretcher sets Setwell traveling sets and various closet sets for women and men on the fifth floor.
Daintily decorated Toilet Set makes a fine gift for any housekeeper. Our large line provides best possible selection for most wallpaper decorations. Assorted shapes and colorings available with covered slop jar, priced at 5.00 per set. Other sets range from 1.95 to 15.00.
Decorated ramekins and plates enhance serving portions and warming of vegetables. Prices fall as factories scale up production, with items like German China and Violet Pattern ramekins offered in dozens at varied price points. A wide array of decorated plates for plate rails, blue and black patterns, and hand-painted effects available. Fifth floor G street.
In the cutlery department a range of gift items and grooming tools is advertised. Ven Knives with stag or pearl handles priced up to $2.60, razors at $1.00, manicure scissors from 50 cents, razor strops up to $1.26, steel and paper shears, thermometers, and Ideal coat hangers offered with various prices. Main floor.
CO offers Setwell Self-adjusting Shoe Forms for men that replace wooden shoe trees. The metal forms fit various shoe sizes and handle straight or curling shapes. A novel gift idea, sets priced 50 cents. Fifth floor New Spa?e ARH is F.
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